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Restoring corrupted .wv files

Hi,
I don't know if this is the correct place to post this, so please let me know. I've recently recorded a show using Reaper with wavpack format; however, at the end, my drive accidentally unpluged before i could stop the recording and I can't open some of the files now. Reaper and VLC display error messages; wvunpack says some of the files are "not compatible with this version", tho it managed to decode some with the -b option. Is there anything that can be done, or should i consider them lost?

Thanks in advance

Re: Restoring corrupted .wv files

Reply #1 –
The -b option should decode any valid audio frames in a file even if there's garbage at the beginning or they're not terminated correctly.

However, it will terminate with that error if it can't find a valid WavPack block at all in the first megabyte. I don't know why a file generated by Reaper, even if interrupted, would look like that.

If you have a WavPack file that should have good audio but generates that error, I'd be happy to take a look at it. It might be recoverable.

Sorry this happened to you!